EOTO Presentations Summary

     After having watched multiple presentations, I have learned a lot about journalism as well as suppression even before social media existed, as far back as before slavery was abolished, Charles Dana for example, Was a well-established journalist and editor for multiple news outlets as well as an author for multiple books, He faced criticism at The New York Tribune for having Abolitionist views, Which Horace Greely did not agree with, This later led to him joining a separate news outlet.

    Similar things occurred to other journalists, such as Nelly Bly. She was kicked out of Mexico for reporting on the poor state of housing and the economy as well as the issue with food and general living conditions, This can show suppression doesn't just occur in US as well, Because some countries don't even have free speech, They are suppressed and forces to have biased and limited views which always make the bad things nonexistent, This is a very dystopian way of suppression but still oddly occurs in a similar way in the US.

    Another issue with news that is thankfully not an issue nowadays is time, Back before social media news was mostly spread through billboards and newspapers, Which took days to print, This doesn't even count the article being written, Which also takes due time and research, and similar to the time factor, The internet didn't exist, There was one source from that area of effect, And that was what everyone assumed, Lying and deceiving and showing up on the headline of news was very common, with social media and many outlets on the internet as well as TV, News is spread rapidly which is both positive and negative.

    In conclusion, Journalism has faced issues during its past, but it ha
s also evolved in a positive way as well, we are able to receive news mere minutes after it is spoken about, and whenever the president does his speeches to America, we are able to watch it live, unfiltered, and unbiased.

Charles A. Dana | American journalist | Britannica

Nellie Bly | American journalist | Britannica